User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
Build ID: 20110909092056
Steps to reproduce:
Consider the following:
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="field1" required>
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="field2" required>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" value="clickme">
i.e. a form where a REQUIRED field is also invisible to the user because of display:none
The user fills in field2, but cannot see field1 (and so leaves it blank). On clicking Submit, Firefox correctly warns that the input field1 must be given data, but the user can't actually see that field, and the whole thing jams up. The user cannot submit the form, either with, or without the field1.
Obviously this is a stupid thing for the web-designer to have done, but Firefox could perhaps do better. My suggestion is that, on identifying a form element as requiring data, firefox should re-enable the block display of the container.
Alternatively, it could pop-up a dialog box to ask for the input value, or it could ignore the "required"-ness.
See discussion in bug 595451.
Thanks for your comment; sorry for the duplicate.
BTW, I did search quite hard for this bug before filing it, searching for any instances of "display" AND "required", but failed to find #595451. If anyone can explain to me (offline) how I should have found it, I'd be grateful for the tip; I know duplicates are a nuisance.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 595451 ***